Disclaimer: I do not own the Xena and Hercules gangs, Gods, etc.

Warning: This story takes place in our time period and in ancient Greece... It's a bit confusing but you'll soon see what I mean. I've made it pretty obvious who the characters are but if you get stuck on one that you can't figure out don't be afriad to ask. There is also no subtext. This is my first Xena fic so please let me know what you think.

Well here's my next 2 chapters. Sorry I have not updated in a long time! Thanks for the reviews! For those of you wondering who Art Kingman is, he's the legendary king of thieves Autolycus. Well I hope you enjoy!

CHAPTER 21

"Lena, time for breakfast!", Irene called from the kitchen. Lena could smell the aroma of pancakes and bacon. What a wonderful smell!

"I'm on my way!", Lena shouted back grabbing her backpack and keys on the way out. She made her way into the kitchen, gave her Mother a kiss, and began eating quickly.

"Calm down girl! You'll give yourself a stomachache!", Irene said, laughing at her daughters eating habits. "So, Lena, prom is coming up. Are you going?", Irene asked.

Lena dropped her fork and slowly stared up at her smiling mother. Lena smiled a sickening smile and took a deep breath. "Mother have I ever gone to prom before?", Lena asked sarcastically.

"No darn it! You're a senior now and it's about time you went! Lena it's your last year and who knows... maybe you'll be voted prom queen or something!", Irene replied excitedly.

"Yeah Mom... like that's gonna' happen! I hate party's and that's the monster of them all!", Lena grumbled.

"Oh, I understand. Is Elle going?", Irene asked sipping her coffee.

"If someone asks her. I think she's praying for Isaac to, but who knows!", Lena replied putting her plate in the sink. "Bye Ma, have a good day at work!", Lena said running out the front door and into her jeep.

She took a deep breath and started her jeep quickly. She knew her Mother was going to bring up the prom. She did this every year since Lena was a Freshman. She started to drive over to Elle's when she realized that Elle wouldn't be at school until 12:00 P.M. She called the night before to tell her that she had an appointment of some kind. 'Oh well', Lena thought, 'At least I'll get to school early today.' Lena quickly drove of to school unaware that she was being watched and watched closely.

Lena pulled into the school parking lot, turned off her ignition and jumped out of her jeep. She felt extremely weird and she had no idea why. She quickly shook the feeling off and made her way up the steps and into the school plaza. There she found Evie, Jax and Aaron talking quietly amongst themselves.

"Hey guys, what's up?", Lena asked walking up behind them.

"Hey Lena!", Evie replied. "How are you doing?", she asked with a hint of concern in her voice.

"Good", Lena said catching the concern in Evie's voice. She decided not to push the "crazy" issue she'd been having lately any further.

Lena looked over to Aaron uncomfortably. She didn't know what was going on with him, but she had a sickening feeling she would soon find out.

"Lena, sweety! How have you... been?", Aaron asked with a slight grin on his face.

Lena closed her eyes tightly. 'He's toying with me!', she thought to herself angrily. "Fine, but I hardly think it's any of your business!", Lena bit back, turning quickly on her heels. "Evie, you coming?", she called back.

Evie looked at Aaron and then back to her friend. "Uh... yeah, right behind you!"

Jax nodded his goodbye to the girls and quickly turned to Aaron with confusion. "What was that all about?", he asked.

Aaron looked over to his friend and sighed. "I'm in that dark as much as you are. You know how women can be... I guess it has something to do with their hormones", Aaron replied laughing.

"Yeah I guess you're right. Elle gets like that a lot too", Jax said as he shrugged it off and turned to walk to his home room class.

Aaron followed slowly behind him. His sweet innocent look suddenly turning into a menacing evil grin.

"Are you alright?", Evie asked, trying desperately to catch up with her angry friend.

Lena took a deep breath and slowed down. "Sorry. Yeah I'm okay, it's just that Aaron makes me mad sometimes."

Evie looked at her friend with deep confusion. "Was it just me or did I miss something? I didn't hear Aaron say anything degrading or mean. All he did was ask how you were doing", Evie said.

"Well I guess it's just his face that makes me mad then", Lena replied scornfully.

"That's cold Lena", Evie said taken back by Lena's harsh comment.

"Well Evie sometimes in this world you gotta' be cold", Lena replied narrowing her eyes and walking into her class.

There was defiantly something going on with her friend and it was killing Evie that she didn't know what it was. She followed Lena into the class and quickly took her seat.

Before either of them knew it 12:00 P.M. rolled around and Lena luckily had calmed down and was in a better mood.

"Where's Elle?", Evie asked, missing the presence of her other friend.

"Oh, she should be coming any time now. She said-", Lena stopped suddenly staring wide eyed at the figure at the door.

Evie noticed her friend's gaze and quickly turned to look at where it was locked upon. Her mouth dropped. There stood Elle, with what used to be her long beautiful blond hair now shortly cropped and looking as nervous as her very first day of school.